Paramount Pictures has scooped up the rights to Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Doug Marlett's novel "The Bridge," as a potential Tom Cruise project, Variety reports.

Mark Andrus, who wrote the Oscar-nominated "As Good As It Gets" screenplay, has been assigned to adapt the film, which deals with the life of a cartoonist who is fired from his New York City newspaper gig, and returns to his family home in North Carolina.

Once back home, the cartoonist is forced to confront his own past, the report said.

Variety said Cruise has not yet confirmed he'll participate in the project, but was involved in approving Andrus as a screenwriter. (More on Tom Cruise)


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